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{"value"=>"3132", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"MssCol 3132", "type"=>"local_call"}
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{"value"=>"ca. 1800-1894", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1800/1894", "certainty"=>"approximate"}
{"value"=>"1844-1894", "type"=>"bulk", "normal"=>"1844/1894"}
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1800
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1894
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1800
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1800
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1894
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Peter Henri Van Der Weyde papers"}
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"2 linear feet (6 boxes)"}], "supress_display"=>true}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.</span> <div class=\"address\"> <span class=\"addressline\">Stephen A. Schwarzman Building</span> <span class=\"addressline\">Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788</span></div>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Peter Henri Van Der Weyde (1813-1895) was a Dutch-American industrial scientist and inventor. Collection consists of correspondence, writings, materials related to inventions, and miscellaneous family papers. Correspondence includes letters Van Der Weyde received when he was a researcher and teacher of industrial science; family correspondence including letters from his son, an officer in the Union Army, 1861-1864; and correspondence concerning a colony founded in 1880 by the Brooklyn Co-operative Colonization Association in Washington Territory. Other materials are contracts, patent petitions, and specifications for inventions; manuscripts and notebooks on applied science and theological and religious topics; and autobiography. Also, family records, financial papers, notes, photograph, and pamphlets describing Van Der Weyde's inventions."}
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{"value"=>"Some notebooks in German"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Peter Henri Van Der Weyde papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library</p>"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Van Der Weyde, Peter Henri, 1813-1895", "type"=>"persname"}
- extent_statement
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2 linear feet (6 boxes)
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{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Peter Henri Van Der Weyde papers are arranged in six series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/3132#c1083654'>Letters received (general)</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>from colleagues in industrial science, former students, readers and friends reflecting his career as a teacher and a researcher and his connection with various academies (including the Cooper Union of N. Y). and private industry. Correspondents include George Barnard and John W. Draper; also included are letters from Fred Nitschke at Olympia, Washington Territory in 1880 relative to the Brooklyn Colony founded by the Brooklyn Co-operative Colonization Association in Washington Territory.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/3132#c1083655'>Family letters received</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>principally from their children; their son, Henry being an officer in the Union army; their son, John, a photographer in Uruguay, South America; and their daughter, Jennie, a school teacher in Georgia and Alabama, 1859-61.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/3132#c1083656'>Technological Papers</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/3132#c1083662'>Writings</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/3132#c1083667'>Miscellaneous</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/3132#c1083674'>Notebooks</a></div>\n</li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
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1844
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1894